A discarded plastic bottle lies on the beach at Sandy Hook, N.J. on April 2, 2019, the same day as a report released by the environmental group Clean Ocean Action found that volunteers picked up more than 450,000 pieces of litter from New Jersey's coastline last year. WAYNE PARRY, AP

A plastic Garfield phone sits on a beach in Le Conquet, France on March 30, 2019. A shipping container which feel off a ship in the 1980s, was found in a hidden sea cave causing Garfield phones to wash up on French beaches for the last 30 years.
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Volunteers pick up trash on Earth Day at Virginia Key Beach Park on April 22, 2019, in Miami. Lynne Sladky, AP

Pieces of plastic, micro plastics and debris are seen in the ocean as a free diver collects plastic during the Big Ocean Clean Up in Hermanus, South Africa Jan. 26 2019. NIC BOTHMA, EPA-EFE

A plastic bag in the Atlantic Ocean off the village of Ngor on the western most tip of Africa, Dakar, Senegal on Feb. 22, 2019. NIC BOTHMA, EPA-EFE

A beach in the fishing village of Yenne Todd, Senegal on Feb. 25, 2019. NIC BOTHMA, EPA-EFE

A Senegalese boy plays with a toy boat made from plastic waste on the polluted shoreline of the village of Ngor on the western most tip of Africa, Dakar, Senegal on Feb. 25, 2019. NIC BOTHMA, EPA-EFE

Senegalese volunteers from the village of Ngor on the western most tip of Africa, Dakar, Senegal pick up trash on Feb. 22, 2019. NIC BOTHMA, EPA-EFE

A man picks up plastic waste and debris from Dalebrook tidal pool during a beach clean up in Kalk Bay, Cape Town, South Africa on March 9, 2019. NIC BOTHMA, EPA-EFE

A plastic bottle is seen coated in oil on Pensacola Beach as oil makes its way on shore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on June 6, 2010 in Pensacola, Fla. JOE RAEDLE, Getty Images

Plastic bags and other rubbish are collected from the waters of Manila Bay in the Philippines on July 3, 2014 during a campaign by environmental activists and volunteers calling for a ban of the use of plastic bags. JAY DIRECTO, AFP/Getty Images